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Download full textPablo, Irasema Mora; Rivas, Leonardo Arturo Rivas; Lengeling, M. Martha; Crawford, Troy – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2015
The objective of this research was to explore the effects of language brokering upon identity formation within the family unit of students who have lived in the United States for a period of time and have come back to live in Mexico. The participants are six students that are currently undertaking a BA in TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Universities
Roberto Flórez, Eliana Edith; Arias Rodríguez, Gladis Leonor – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2016
This article is the result of a research study that examined teachers and undergraduate students' stereotypes about English teaching and learning processes at a private university in Tunja, Colombia. The research was carried out with six English teachers and twenty undergraduate students from first and second semesters. The instruments used to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Han, Turgay – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2015
This study aims at providing an insightful evaluation of the EFL strategies used by first-year STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) students, and their perceptions of their own use of strategies. The 147 participants were undergraduate level, first-year engineering students at a state university in Turkey. Their ages ranged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
Marroquín, Paula Ramírez – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2015
This article shows the results of a research project which searched to answer how to articulate formative research with classroom projects in an undergraduate English teaching program. To accomplish the purpose of this paper, the document will focus on the two specific objectives of this qualitative research: document revision, and knowing about…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Mc Danel de García, Mary Anne – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2013
This article refers to an action research project involving pre-service teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine if specific learning outcomes could be successfully employed as objectives for an ethics course for preservice teacher preparation. Real life case histories were used by students to identify and reflect upon moral and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Ethical Instruction, Action Research, Student Educational Objectives
Gerena, Linda; Ramírez-Verdugo, M. Dolores – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
This study was carried out as an international cooperative research project supported by a Fulbright Scholar award to investigate attitudes and perceptions towards bilingual education, and to extract key findings on effective pedagogy in bilingual schools in the Region of Madrid, where expansion of bilingual programs has been rapidly increasing.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, International Cooperation, Research Projects
Gutiérrez Colón-Plana, Mar – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2012
This paper submits a qualitative study on different aspects of Comenius projects undertaken in ten educational centres in Catalonia during the academic year 07- 08. The objectives of this paper are to present these projects within the realities of particular school contexts, to emphasize the strengths and weaknesses of the projects, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning, Educational Policy
Romero Archila, Yuranny Marcela – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
The purpose of this research was to identify the types of interaction that emerged not only in a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) but also in face-to-face settings. The study also assessed the impact of the different kinds of interactions in terms of language learning. This is a qualitative case study that took place in a private Colombian…
Descriptors: Interaction, Blended Learning, English Language Learners, Virtual Classrooms
Rodríguez Cervantes, Carmen A.; Roux Rodriguez, Ruth – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2012
When language learners do not know how to say a word in English, they can communicate effectively by using their hands, imitating sounds, inventing new words, or describing what they mean. These ways of communicating are communication strategies (CSs). EFL teachers are not always aware of the importance of teaching communication strategies to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Communication Strategies, Nonverbal Communication
López Urdaneta, Julio Lorenzo – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2011
Previous studies have drawn some results concerning the way in which second language (L2) students use their first language (L1) when producing texts in their L2. Therefore, this study examines the influence L1 written structure has on L2 written structure when students are asked to carry out assignments in the L2. To answer this question, twenty…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Spanish, Native Language
Dimas, Héctor Manuel Serna – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2011
This action research study explores explicit vocabulary instruction in an L2 (English) content-area course with a group of university student teachers. The study reviews several positions on the treatment of vocabulary in L2 contexts. The researcher takes up the teaching of explicit vocabulary through class activities and the students' completion…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pineda, Jorge E. – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2010
This is a small scale, inductive, ethnographic study whose objective is to explore the language learning strategies used by the students of different languages at a language program at the university level. Students of English, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and German participate in the study. Three instruments are used…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, French, Portuguese
Noel, Barbara – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2008
This article provides a brief theoretical framework as well as literature review and describes the activities of an on-going research program which examines the experiences of students and professors at a specialized bilingual teacher's college in the Republic of Colombia, South America. It follows the development of a new pedagogical model as…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Student Experience, Teaching Experience, Bilingual Education
